Threats to Free Speech on Campuses are Real
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
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Based on a recent survey of American college faculty, the threats to free speech on college campuses could mean more acceptance of violence, more speech restrictions, more investigations for wrongspeak, and more deplatforming. While this is only one study and more research is needed, these results should give us legitimate cause for concern that the attitudes among college faculty are hostile towards academic freedom and free speech.
To learn more about the report and how you can stand up for free expression both on and off campus, visit us at thefire.org.
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This rlly is the woke McCarthy era
Why then do you consistently back off tackling even the most egregious expressions of stupidity?
I had once thought that both FAIR and FIRE were the way to fight this deranged nonsense - now I think of you as “Moderate Activists”.
I am sure you would regard this as an unfair assessment , but I doubt that I am part of a “tiny minority” in this view.
Any examples?
Thank you for posting this and for all you do.
Academia has been descending into a liberal "paradise" for years. Well, you're almost there, comrades!
#defundtheleft #abolishtheleft
It's a pretty strong sign that the college bubble is bursting. The public perception of the university as an institution of higher learning and intellectual rigor is disintegrating. Along with all the clear signs that the quality of university education is declining, along with the increasing perception that a university will harm your children more than it will help them, are clear economic signs that the university system is about to implode under its own weight. The original purpose of a bachelor's degree was to form your mind so you could become a capable scholar. At that time, only 1 to 2% of the population would ever earn one. Even as late as the 1950s, only 5% of the population of the US would earn a bachelor's degree. Now that number is over 40%, and the purpose of a bachelor's degree has nothing to do with scholarship. It's supposedly about fulfilling a prerequisite for employment in the knowledge economy, i.e. highly skilled labor. In other words, it's an extension of secondary education. Call it tertiary education. But the statistics demonstrate otherwise. The majority of under-35s with bachelor's degrees are earning less than $35,000 five years after graduating. Many of them are on public benefits. They aren't training to join the knowledge economy. They're training to be activists. That's the purpose. It's a Ponzi scheme whose purpose is to generate activists. And every Ponzi scheme is unsustainable, by definition. The bubble has to burst. We just don't have enough knowledge jobs to hand out to over 40% of the population. We don't even have enough for 15% of the population. Most of these people are not smart enough to be academics, scientists, or researchers. And there isn't enough intellectual work for them either. Yet, neither are they capable of manual labor, since they've been preparing solely for the false hope of intellectual work for their entire lives. The degree they all bear is tanking in real value, even as its market price soars due to ever-swelling ranks of administrative faculty. And there's a labor shortage in many other industries that is increasing in severity. Practically everyone involved in higher ed administration knows the whole house of cards is about to come crashing down. That's why they're not making any effort to turn things around. That's why they're not reducing tuition, not trying to save money, not trying to preserve their reputations, not trying to dismantle the DEI bureaucracies. The non-activists that are actually running the show, the people with $400k+ salaries? They all know it's too late to salvage the system. So they're just gonna spend the last few years of opportunity to milk it for everything it's worth before it blows up. The university "market" is bearish, but that doesn't mean there aren't still heaps of money to be made by betting against it.
But it's also their academic freedom to be able to think that way.
Unless you agree with Hans-Hermann Hoppe's idea of "estoppel". Which is something I have considered but would be inconsistent with FIRE's professed view of "if it's protected [under 1A], we'll defend it".
I guess something can be concerning without it being something we should prevent using force though.
To be clear, I don't necessarily agree with the context behind his use of the word "estoppel".
I love what FIRE does, But they didn't have a minute for me to explain my case when i was kicked out of PCC (Portland) for an Explicitly consensual conversation about the first amendment merits of the Queer Resource Center's No Insult Day, during which fiasco the college broke it's own rules, not to mention violating my rights, which has ever bit as much merit as the cases i see them discussing in these videos.
They didn't have a minute for me when i was kicked out of Edison College (Ft. Meyers, FL) for saying "The mind is my killing field, but not by choice." which has ever bit as much merit as the cases i see them discussing in these videos.
I don't know what their criteria are, but they're clearly arbitrary in application of they can ignore two cases exactly like the ones they don't ignore..
You really managed to get kicked out of two separate colleges? Yeah it's insane that universities are violating your civil rights, but why waste your money? Stop going out of your way to give those degenerates an opportunity to ruin your life. Get what you paid for, go out into the world, make a success of yourself, and use the political system to beat them. Unless the second civil war has already begun by then, in which case you can always enlist.
I support fire but you recently published an article free speech was under assault regarding drag shows. It is not denying free speech limiting or banning drag shows in public education. There are many, many restrictions in the k12 square. - as there should be!
I mean, it is. If you want them to be a true nonpartisan civil liberties group they’re going to take cases you don’t like as well.